Today, I want to preach a sermon on today’s Scripture reading in continuation from the sermon I shared with you yesterday. Yesterday, I spoke from the Book of Exodus and the Book of First Kings about the fact that the Israelites replaced God with golden calves and worshipped them instead of God and that, as a result, God’s wrath fell on them and they were destroyed. The Word from Isaiah chapter 1 that we have read today is of the same teaching as the Word we shared yesterday. The Israelites, both from the southern kingdom and from the northern kingdom, took these golden calves as their gods and honored them in the temple and offered up sacrifices a few times a year according to due season. They worshipped before these golden calves even on the Day of Atonement and God could not tolerate their sin any longer when He saw such great sins of the Israelites. The Israelites established these golden calves as their gods on their own, burned incense, and offered up burnt offerings to these golden calves. Dear fellow saints, how can such a thing take place? However, such a despicable sacrificial offering had become official for the Israelites. Such a worship service had become official. Thus, worshipping golden calves had become a tradition to the descendants of Israel.

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